Iran ; explosions across Tehran following Israeli and US strikes, 28 February 2026

[otto]

Exactly, they were meeting to put a new head on the current snake.

After several political leaders were wiped out because they were in the same location at the same time on Saturday, would they make the same mistake again?

It's all over the news that Anthropic AI was used to track and target Maduro, and it seems like an easy leap to assume the same AI software was used to track the Iran leader. It could also be used to track other political leaders in Iran.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-used-anthropics-claude-in-maduro-venezuela-raid-583aff17

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Footage showed babies being evacuated from a hospital in Bushehr, Iran after the facility was damaged amid US-Israeli strikes. Staff and Iranian Red Crescent workers could be seen wheeling the infants needing specialised care from the neonatal unit to waiting ambulances

Babies evacuated from Iranian hospital damaged in US-Israeli strikes

Footage showed babies being evacuated from a hospital in Bushehr, Iran damaged by US-Israeli strikes.

www.aljazeera.com

The IDF on Tuesday targeted a building in which the 88-member Assembly of Experts was reportedly meeting to choose Iran’s next supreme leader, Israeli sources told The Jerusalem Post.

Iranian news agencies said the structure in Qom was “flattened.” Tasnim, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), confirmed that the Assembly’s compound in Qom had been struck, and that its building in Tehran, located at the former parliament site, was also hit overnight. A Telegram channel, Zed TV, claimed the strike targeted a formal session convened to select the Islamic Republic’s next leader, alleging members were killed or wounded.

If accurate, the strikes were aimed at the most sensitive institutional body of the Islamic Republic.

Israeli strike hits symbolic heart of Iran's regime | The Jerusalem Post

Targeting the Assembly is a strike that disrupts the succession process, and, more symbolically, it is a psychological strike at everything the Islamic Republic stands for.

www.jpost.com

Before a single bomb fell, the public mood was clear.

Seventy-six percent of Americans say Iran cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. That’s not a partisan talking point. It’s a red line. And notably, that number is identical to the one in American Pulse research and the Harvard-Harris poll in February.

Seventy-one percent think Iran would use a nuclear weapon if it acquired one.

Those two numbers matter more than any snap poll taken in the fog of breaking news. They define the terrain on which this debate sits

GUEST VIEW: The polling explains the posture on Iran - Odessa American

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

www.oaoa.com

 

[Simply Southern]

This has good maps and great photos of today’s attacks in Iran. Interactive map at end of article.

Airstrikes have hit the building in Qom used by the Assembly of Experts, the council of senior clerics (90 members) responsible for electing Iran’s next Supreme Leader

Looks pretty damaged, to me.

https://iran.liveuamap.com/

 

[justtrish]

Wow. It's kind of like wanting a new regime isn't the agenda here....jmo.

If the Iranian people (civilians/citizens) are not voting on the new supreme leader and the same evil doers that were part of the terrorist regime that was are the ones voting, then it does not make it a "new" regime, it's a continuation of the last one. IMO

 

[Yellowbelly]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028840911623348663

Bloomberg are reporting the same, but it can't possibly be true, can it? After seeing the Supreme Leader and most of the military leadership wiped out on Saturday morning, they actually decide to meet for their 'papal conclave' in person, in their normal meeting place, in the full knowledge that Israel can both track what they're doing (see Saturday morning) and has air superiority.

I refuse to believe anyone, not even fundamentalist religious crackpots, could be THAT stupid.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/israel-struck-iran-assembly-of-experts-while-they-met-kan-says

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Maybe for the majority of Americans, but not to us in NYC. While 9/11 was not “combat” in the strictest sense, the human costs were ENTIRELY visible. I watched it with my own eyes. I saw the death of my friends. It took my daughter all day to get home and she brought some co-workers with her who couldn’t get home at all.

My students and colleagues were in hysteria all day because many had family who worked in the WTC. We most certainly ARE speaking of civilians.

I’d been to the WTC many times in the past, and since 9/11 I’ve been several times to the memorial.

I know Bin Laden was Saudi, not Iranian, but Iran has sponsored terror as well.

So I may not have witnessed the American Civil War, but what I did see that day WAS a war against America.

You watch people jumping from 100 stories up, you watch 220 stories of buildings collapse, you have dust and objects from the WTC land on your car and your terrace as I did, and you cannot say it is abstract for all of us.

My opinion because I lived through it.

It is our shared national tragedy.... many many of us had connections of some sort or another...
I was working in Boston, and had colleagues with relatives who were on the planes.
We have all stayed tight over all these years, becauseof that pain.
BUT the nation obviously did not experience it first hand. But you in New York City did.

The affects were long lasting.
But the attack was not.

We are still a country of no internal attacks that lasted time and ruined people and their way of life.

I now know people and am reading journalists talking about many wonderful Iranians that they know.
I sense we are to think of Iran, and by inclusion, all Iranians as one big grey block of a desert.

If we see long lasting bombing and blasting of Iranian civilians, the US and I should be considered barbarians.

 

[PrairieWind]

It is our shared national tragedy.... many many of us had connections of some sort or another...
I was working in Boston, and had colleagues with relatives who were on the planes.
We have all stayed tight over all these years, becauseof that pain.
BUT the nation obviously did not experience it first hand. But you in New York City did.

The affects were long lasting.
But the attack was not.

We are still a country of no internal attacks that lasted time and ruined people and their way of life.

I now know people and am reading journalists talking about many wonderful Iranians that they know.
I sense we are to think of Iran, and by inclusion, all Iranians as one big grey block of a desert.

If we see long lasting bombing and blasting of Iranian civilians, the US and I should be considered barbarians.

That is ridiculous. You can speak to any American on the street, Americans are ready to call Iranians friends once the Regime is gone. Americans know full well that it is the Regime and Revolutionary Guard that is evil, not the Iranian people. There is no wholesale bombing of civilian areas in the last few days, these attacks are as targeted as they can be.

 

[Lebowski]

I value your opinion.

thanks! i value my opinion too!

 

[bestill]

This is amazing! Power to the people of Iran is my prayer!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028852804711030893

 

[bestill]

Maybe now people will believe President Trump and his administration when they say Iran was clearly close to obtaining nuke weapons capabilities

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028832288243433818

 

[Skigh]

Iran’s women’s team decline to sing national anthem before Asian Cup tie

Iran’s women’s football team declined to sing their national anthem before their opening match of the Asian Cup

www.theguardian.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

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[nhmemorymaker]

That is ridiculous. You can speak to any American on the street, Americans are ready to call Iranians friends once the Regime is gone. Americans know full well that it is the Regime and Revolutionary Guard that is evil, not the Iranian people. There is no wholesale bombing of civilian areas in the last few days, these attacks are as targeted as they can be.

who said otherwise, on being friends later.........

THIS will not be slow or easy. The poor Iranian people are there NOW.
Would be glad to think what you think about them NOW.... not after regime change.

Hope everone can remember all the recent successful "regime changes".

moo

 

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[nhmemorymaker]

This has good maps and great photos of today’s attacks in Iran. Interactive map at end of article.

Airstrikes have hit the building in Qom used by the Assembly of Experts, the council of senior clerics (90 members) responsible for electing Iran’s next Supreme Leader

Looks pretty damaged, to me.


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https://iran.liveuamap.com/

thanks for this one....

 

[nhmemorymaker]

This has good maps and great photos of today’s attacks in Iran. Interactive map at end of article.

Airstrikes have hit the building in Qom used by the Assembly of Experts, the council of senior clerics (90 members) responsible for electing Iran’s next Supreme Leader

Looks pretty damaged, to me.


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https://iran.liveuamap.com/

This source is also very good.

Interactive Map: U.S. and Israeli Strikes on Iran

This interactive map complements the daily conflict coverage that the combined ISW-CTP team produces for conflicts in the Middle East.

storymaps.arcgis.com

 

[justtrish]

Maybe now people will believe President Trump and his administration when they say Iran was clearly close to obtaining nuke weapons capabilities

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028832288243433818

That is very optimistic of you! I'm sure plenty will still refuse to see that this threat was there. I'm sure the UN will pass a resolution though that won't do anything to stop Iran. I was disgusted to listen to their meeting the other day where the representative from Iran was allowed to speak and also the reps from China and Russia as if they have some moral high ground they can stand on in this situation. It's a slap in the face and appalling.

I think many always think the best time to act is LATER or after we have been hit first. Then you know there is still criticism because the narrative would be well why did we wait so long and if we knew Iran was going to do X then why didn't we do something first? When we do something first, the narrative shifts to the time to do something was later and we should have talked it out more.

There is never a perfect time and there is never a good time, and nothing will ever go off without something going wrong, but we can't just sit and wait. This time while we waited and "talked" the Iranian people were being killed for standing up to their government. In the month that we waited and talked Iran built 100 more missiles. We all would prefer that Iran agreed to a deal and actually followed through on their end, but they have shown us that is not who they are and not what they were ever going to do, so how long should we have waited? How many more missiles should they have built? Should we have waited for that uranium to be ready? What if it already was? They refused to let anyone in to see.

IMO

 

[Skigh]

'Not Winston Churchill we're dealing with': Trump renews attack on PM

The US President took a fresh swipe at Sir Keir as he continued to fume at the PM's initial refusal to allow American bombers to use British bases to strike Iran.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[imstilla.grandma]

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor taken and released on March 2, 2026, shows damage at the Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery

Saudi Arabia suffered a drone strike on its main Saudi Ras Tanura refinery, causing a fire and forcing some operations to be shut down. Qatar also shut off energy supplies after Iranian attacks.

The attacks on Arab countries lie at the heart of Iran’s strategy to survive the war against two far more capable military powers, according to analysts. Unable to defeat either the US or Israeli militarily, it is raising the costs of the war’s continuation for the region and beyond in hopes that pressure builds on the US, and thus on Israel, to agree to a ceasefire.

Hoping to pressure end to war, Iran aims fire at Arab neighbors. It hasn’t worked, yet

Tehran is betting raising the costs of fighting for the stability-hungry region will lead to Trump backing off strikes, but the Gulf's defiance has foiled the strategy. Will it last?

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Momoffourboys]

Reporter: “Mr. President, did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran?”

President Trump: “No. No, I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successfully. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first. And I didn't want that to happen. So, if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand. But Israel was ready and we were ready. And we've had a very, very powerful impact because virtually everything they have has been knocked out now.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028877972241858859